Originally posted by tonyv:
... the Photo-a-day enthusiasts.
When do you considor the photo taken? When the shutter is pressed? When you have done some post-processing, printed it and placed it in an album? If you take a photo every day, do you post-process, etc. immediately, or do you wait and do a whole lot at once.
Thanks
Tony |
I feel personally that the photo is taken when the shutter is released. The rest of the processing could not be accomplished with the exposure that you need, which is created when releasing the shutter. Anyone who's worked in traditional chemical photography will understand this. The moment of capture and the settings used at the point of capture dictate what will occur when the final image is processed. (my opinion) With the advent of digital technology, some feel that less accuracy is required at the point of capture, because image editing software can meld the image to the specifications of the original vision. I disagree, however.
Kind of an odd question anyhow. When you say "when do you consider the photo taken?", do you mean "when do you consider the photo completed as to your vision?" ??
I don't believe it matters when the processing is done. The original exposure is still the original exposure. Sometimes I like to wait for a while before I process the images, so that I can go back to the original exposure and re-think what I was trying to accomplish and then edit accordingly. This is especially true if I've learned a new processing technique. I will then go back to my image archive and try the technique on previous images to check the results and compare to my original processing.
-Nick
Message edited by author 2005-05-20 15:10:50. |
